Programme

Travel’s reports of the past are a preferred source for the construction of geographical thought and culture. Particularly between the late Middle Ages and Modern Age, travel’s relations allows to retrace the complex process of widening of Europeans’ geographical horizon. In western society the relationship between geography and travel’s reports has changed over the centuries, to the need to sort and reprocess the information gathered, to create a geographical knowledge built on valid rules, correlations between phenomena and rational criteria for classification. During the course will be analyzed practices of travel, travelers and travel’s reports, in their various types. Will also be considered some examples of travel’s reports that, throughout history, have marked the collective imagination and the construction of the world’s modern image. Testimony of travel’s experiences, travel literature has become ever more an instrument of knowledge of the territory and of human communities, through understanding the other and the elsewhere, but also the culture that looks at the other and at the space, for as this was and still is organized on the basis of many human needs (exploration, knowledge, tourism, etc.).

Core Documentation

Not attending

Numa Broc, La Geografia del Rinascimento. Cosmografi, cartografi, viaggiatori, Modena, Franco Cosimo Panini, 2007.

Ilaria Luzzana Caraci, Trovare, cercare, scoprire. Le tappe della scoperta, in Il mondo dei vichinghi, Ambiente, storia, cultura ed arte, Genova, SAGEP, 1991, pp. 57-77 (The volume is available at the Petrocchi Library. In case of problems, ask the teacher).

This program will be valid from the summer session (May-June) 2020 (and until that of February 2021), since the course will take place in the second semester.

Reference Bibliography

Charles Ralph Boxer, The Christian Century in Japan, Berkeley/Los Angeles, University of California Press, & London, Cambridge University Press, 1951 Claudio Cerreti, Breve ragionamento intorno ai sette paradossi principali del viaggio, in Ilaria Luzzana Caraci (a cura di), Il viaggio come fonte di conoscenze geografiche, Geotema, n° 8 (1997), pp. 52-59. Adriana Boscaro, Ventura e sventura dei gesuiti in Giappone (1549-1639), Venezia, Cafoscarina, 2008. Garcia de Escalante Alvarado, Relación del viaje que hizo desde Nueva España a las Islas del Poniente, después Filipinas, Ruy López de Villalobos, de orden del Virrey de Nueva España, Don Antonio de Mendoza, s.l., Universidad de Cantabria, 1999. Ilaria Luzzana Caraci, Scopritori e viaggiatori del Cinquecento, Milano-Napoli, Riccardo Ricciardi Editore-Mondadori, 1996, 2 voll. Ilaria Luzzana Caraci, Dall’esperienza del viaggio al sapere geografico, in «Geotema», III (1997), n. 8, pp. 3-12. Marina Marengo, Geografia e letteratura. Piccolo manuale d’uso, Bologna, Pàtron Editore, 2016. Marco Polo, Il Milione, a cura di Marcello Ciccuto, BUR, Milano. 2008. Giovanni Battista Ramusio, Navigazioni e viaggi, a cura di Marica Milanesi, Torino, Einaudi, 1978-1979, 6 voll. Guglielmo Scaramellini, Raffigurazione dello spazio e conoscenza geografica: i resoconti di viaggio, in Geografie private. I resoconti di viaggio come lettura del territorio, a cura di Elisa Bianchi, Gèneve-Milano, Slatkine- Unicopli, 1985 (Collana Studi e ricerche sul territorio), pp. 27-123. Guglielmo Scaramellini, La geografia dei viaggiatori. Raffigurazioni individuali e immagini collettive nei resoconti di viaggio, Milano, Unicopli, 1993 o 1998.

Type of delivery of the course

As for all master's degree courses, attendance is mandatory. During the lessons are studied in depth the theories and critical elements useful for understanding how, over time, we have passed from travel literature to geographic knowledge. Different types of travelers, odeporiche sources and scientific works are analyzed.

Attendance

The exam is written. These are open questions concerning topics, theories, sources and characters analyzed in class.

Type of evaluation

Open questions on the theories and methods of analysis of travel literature, on the types of sources that can be used for research, on the historical, cultural and social contexts in which the data contained in the odeporic sources are transformed into geographical knowledge. Only for attending students (those who participate in the lessons continuously), the exam takes place on materials provided in class and with the shared discussion of an original paper (which must be delivered in writing before the group presentation) prepared during the course. Remember that copying is a crime.

Programme

Travel’s reports of the past are a preferred source for the construction of geographical thought and culture. Particularly between the late Middle Ages and Modern Age, travel’s relations allows to retrace the complex process of widening of Europeans’ geographical horizon. In western society the relationship between geography and travel’s reports has changed over the centuries, to the need to sort and reprocess the information gathered, to create a geographical knowledge built on valid rules, correlations between phenomena and rational criteria for classification. During the course will be analyzed practices of travel, travelers and travel’s reports, in their various types. Will also be considered some examples of travel’s reports that, throughout history, have marked the collective imagination and the construction of the world’s modern image. Testimony of travel’s experiences, travel literature has become ever more an instrument of knowledge of the territory and of human communities, through understanding the other and the elsewhere, but also the culture that looks at the other and at the space, for as this was and still is organized on the basis of many human needs (exploration, knowledge, tourism, etc.).

Core Documentation

Not attending

Numa Broc, La Geografia del Rinascimento. Cosmografi, cartografi, viaggiatori, Modena, Franco Cosimo Panini, 2007.

Ilaria Luzzana Caraci, Trovare, cercare, scoprire. Le tappe della scoperta, in Il mondo dei vichinghi, Ambiente, storia, cultura ed arte, Genova, SAGEP, 1991, pp. 57-77 (The volume is available at the Petrocchi Library. In case of problems, ask the teacher).

This program will be valid from the summer session (May-June) 2020 (and until that of February 2021), since the course will take place in the second semester.

Reference Bibliography

Charles Ralph Boxer, The Christian Century in Japan, Berkeley/Los Angeles, University of California Press, & London, Cambridge University Press, 1951 Claudio Cerreti, Breve ragionamento intorno ai sette paradossi principali del viaggio, in Ilaria Luzzana Caraci (a cura di), Il viaggio come fonte di conoscenze geografiche, Geotema, n° 8 (1997), pp. 52-59. Adriana Boscaro, Ventura e sventura dei gesuiti in Giappone (1549-1639), Venezia, Cafoscarina, 2008. Garcia de Escalante Alvarado, Relación del viaje que hizo desde Nueva España a las Islas del Poniente, después Filipinas, Ruy López de Villalobos, de orden del Virrey de Nueva España, Don Antonio de Mendoza, s.l., Universidad de Cantabria, 1999. Ilaria Luzzana Caraci, Scopritori e viaggiatori del Cinquecento, Milano-Napoli, Riccardo Ricciardi Editore-Mondadori, 1996, 2 voll. Ilaria Luzzana Caraci, Dall’esperienza del viaggio al sapere geografico, in «Geotema», III (1997), n. 8, pp. 3-12. Marina Marengo, Geografia e letteratura. Piccolo manuale d’uso, Bologna, Pàtron Editore, 2016. Marco Polo, Il Milione, a cura di Marcello Ciccuto, BUR, Milano. 2008. Giovanni Battista Ramusio, Navigazioni e viaggi, a cura di Marica Milanesi, Torino, Einaudi, 1978-1979, 6 voll. Guglielmo Scaramellini, Raffigurazione dello spazio e conoscenza geografica: i resoconti di viaggio, in Geografie private. I resoconti di viaggio come lettura del territorio, a cura di Elisa Bianchi, Gèneve-Milano, Slatkine- Unicopli, 1985 (Collana Studi e ricerche sul territorio), pp. 27-123. Guglielmo Scaramellini, La geografia dei viaggiatori. Raffigurazioni individuali e immagini collettive nei resoconti di viaggio, Milano, Unicopli, 1993 o 1998.

Type of delivery of the course

As for all master's degree courses, attendance is mandatory. During the lessons are studied in depth the theories and critical elements useful for understanding how, over time, we have passed from travel literature to geographic knowledge. Different types of travelers, odeporiche sources and scientific works are analyzed.

Attendance

The exam is written. These are open questions concerning topics, theories, sources and characters analyzed in class.

Type of evaluation

Open questions on the theories and methods of analysis of travel literature, on the types of sources that can be used for research, on the historical, cultural and social contexts in which the data contained in the odeporic sources are transformed into geographical knowledge. Only for attending students (those who participate in the lessons continuously), the exam takes place on materials provided in class and with the shared discussion of an original paper (which must be delivered in writing before the group presentation) prepared during the course. Remember that copying is a crime.